I have just returned from beautiful Canton, Massachusetts, aka "the junction," home of BostonRob, and suddenly Ground Zero for a possible October Surprise, or the latest Gloria Allred circus, or both.

The scene is the Norfolk Family and Probate Court, and at issue is trial testimony given nearly two decades ago by one Mitt Romney of Belmont in the divorce of Staples founder Thomas Stemberg and Maureen Sullivan Stemberg.

Last week, the national media began to pick up on David Bernstein's 2007 investigation into Romney's shadow years at Bain while he was running the Salt Lake City Olympics -- and now the media is also beginning to pick up on another line of Bernstein's inquiry, which concerns potential conflicts of interest that Romney admitted to while he was in Salt Lake City.